

On August 8, 2009, Carlene Carter played a live acoustic set at Heckscher Park in Huntington, New York. Alluding to some of her past problems, she said, "I'm really fortunate to have been making records for 30 years.I've had some gaps where I was doing research." On November 20, 2008, Carlene Carter performed at Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Massachusetts accompanied by Mike Emerson ( Elvin Bishop, Tommy Castro) on piano and Sean Allen on electric guitar and later joined by her husband Joe Breen.
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In 2005, she was played by Victoria Hester in the movie Walk the Line. In the remastered version, John added his wife Laura (Carlene's sister-in-law) and his backing vocals and a guest appearance from Carlene herself-more than 25 years after she wrote and first recorded the song. It then was remastered by her half-brother John Carter Cash.
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Originally recorded in 1977 with a full string backing group, it was lost in a tape collection in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and then recovered in 2003. She received a small amount of acclaim with the song "It Takes One to Know Me", which was released on the albums Johnny Cash: The Legend and Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash: Duets. In 1996, Carter released Hindsight 20/20, a greatest-hits album, but it failed to achieve success. In 1995, Carter's Little Acts of Treason was well received critically, but failed to achieve the commercial success of Carter's two previous releases. She played a waitress on the gambling casino ship run by Commodore Duvall ( James Coburn). A picture of Carter appears in the game's back glass artwork.Ĭarter had a cameo appearance in the 1994 film Maverick. A clip of Carter's hit, "Every Little Thing", is played after the player scores a jackpot. Three years later, Epstein produced Carter's follow-up CD Little Love Letters, featuring the hit " Every Little Thing", which was one of the top-rated music videos of the year.Ĭarter provided the voice of Red in the 1994 Williams pinball machine, Red & Ted's Road Show, designed by Pat Lawlor. The album, which featured straight-ahead, retro-sounding country (unlike her prior work, which had combined country, rock and roll and pop sounds) was among the first successes of the 1990s "neotraditionalist" movement in country. In 1991, the song " I Fell in Love" earned a Grammy nomination for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. Epstein helped Carter get her career back on track, producing I Fell in Love and co-authoring its title track with longtime collaborator, Milwaukee writer Perry M. Following a lengthy stint living in the UK and in the run-up to her divorce from English singer-songwriter Nick Lowe, Carter had returned to the U.S., where in 1988 she met musician Howie Epstein, bassist in Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. The album and title song topped the US country albums and singles charts, respectively. Ĭarter's revived her solo career with the album I Fell in Love, in 1990. Together, they formed a revived version of The Carter Family, and were featured on a 1987 television episode of Austin City Limits along with Johnny Cash. In 1987, Carter joined with the singing trio The Carter Sisters, consisting of her mother June Carter Cash and June's sisters Helen and Anita Carter. In 1983, she had a top-40 hit "I Couldn't Say No", a duet with Robert Ellis Orrall. Ĭarter co-wrote a song with Guy Clark's wife, Susanna Clark, for Emmylou Harris on her 1978 Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town album, "Easy From Now On". In 1979, during a concert at New York City's The Bottom Line, she introduced a song about mate-swapping called "Swap-Meat Rag", from her album Two Sides to Every Woman, by stating, "Well, if that don't put the 'cunt' back in country, I don't know what does." Johnny Cash and June Carter were in the audience, unbeknownst to Carlene. Her solo recording career began in the late 1970s with her eponymous debut album. In the same timespan, she has released more than 20 singles, including three number three-peaking hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.Ĭarlene Carter's earliest released solo recording was "Friendly Gates", a track included on her stepfather Johnny Cash's 1974 album The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me, and credited under the name Carlene Routh.

She is the daughter of June Carter Cash and her first husband, Carl Smith.Īs of 2020, since 1978, Carter has recorded 12 albums, primarily on major labels. Carlene Carter (born Rebecca Carlene Smith September 26, 1955) is an American country music singer and songwriter.
